Romans 8:26 26Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
The Holy Spirit is not inside you to point out your faults or
nag at you when you do wrong. God’s Word tells us that He is
inside us to help us in our weaknesses. In areas where we are
without strength, He is there to help us. When we don’t know
what to pray, “the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered”.
Now, don’t read the verse and say, “Well, I don’t know what I
should pray for, and since the Holy Spirit makes intercession
for me, I will leave the praying to Him.”
If the Holy Spirit, without our participation, makes
intercession for us, then every Christian would be living
victorious lives automatically! But we know that there are
many Christians who don’t seem to be walking in the fullness
of God’s blessings. So obviously, Romans 8:26 is not saying
that. What is it saying then?
In the first part of the verse, the word “helps” is sunantilambanomai
in the original Greek text. It means “to take hold together
against”. Now, “together” means that our participation is
required. In other words, the Holy Spirit sunantilambanomai
or takes hold together with us against the problem.
So if you just sit back and don’t take hold of the problem,
the Holy Spirit has nothing to “take hold of ” with you. If
you don’t pray, He has nothing to pray. If you keep quiet,
then even if He wants to pray through you, He can’t. But when
you release your prayer in tongues, you are actually allowing
Him to pray through you. And He will take hold together with
you against the problem, and pray the perfect prayer through
you because “He makes intercession for the saints according to
the will of God”. (Romans 8:27)
And you can be confident that when you ask anything according
to the will of God, He hears you. And if you know that He
hears you, whatever you ask, you know that you have the
petitions that you have asked of Him! (1 John 5:14–15)
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